19 Lyrics Prove Donald Glover Is One of the Most Clever Rappers in Hip-Hop

Childish Gambino, akaDonald Glover, is many things: rapper, actor, comedian and comedy writer for 30 Rock and the popular Internet sketch comedy troupe Derrick Comedy. He's also on a hot streak.

This year alone he's released three albums, each more well-received than the last. He's assembled one of the most talented and flexible live bands in hip-hop. Every little thing he does is eaten up by the press. He recently stopped a concert to show a fan theycould take better video if theyturned theirphone on its side, and the video went viral.

The hip-hop community was initially skeptical of Childish Gambino's foray into hip-hop. Fans mocked the rapper as "inauthentic" and his persona as "emo" and "preposterously self-obsessed." But despite all the shade, over the past 6 years he has built a solid career on great raps that are distinctive for one reason:

They're hilarious. And even when they aren't funny, they're bitingly clever.

With the most hilarious and cutting referential lyrics in the game, he's won over some pretty heavy hitters in hip-hop, including ScHoolboy Q, Funkmaster Flex and Gangsta Grillz, who produced and released Gambino's latest mixtape STN MTN, which has already been certified gold on DatPiff. Here are the 19 quotes that prove he's the quickest man in the game.

1. "I'm in love with you, but this is not tennis / And baby stay stacked like she bad at Tetris"

"Do Ya Like" – Culdesac

Stacks of bills and stacks in Tetris are the only bad stacks ever discussed in hip-hop. Tetris stacks are arguably worse, because stacks of bills are only bad if they're the kind you have to pay.

19. "Funny we show 'em class and they call me the class clown"

"Money Baby" — STN MTN

In truth, Childish Gambino has far more dick jokes to his name than most people who consider themselves classy. Yet his rap is encyclopedic in its references and vicious in its wordplay. He's far more than just a class clown.

Correction December 8, 2014: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Donald Glover was a writer on SNL.